Topic: Lots of weirdness in the news today... (Read 912 times)

Graymael · « **on:** October 19, 2011, 09:54:51 pm »

Wild Animals at Rag?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/19/opinion/travers-escape-wild-animals-ohio/

Rag 3, 4, and 5 were held in Zanesville, Ohio...today they hunted TIGERS there.

"May you live in interesting times."

Sir Magnus of Narnia · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2011, 10:00:27 pm »

They have shot them all but the Monkey.

Graymael · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2011, 10:03:45 pm »

The monkey with herpes. (Probably had a "relationship" with a Narnian.) Just sayin.

Sir Magnus of Narnia · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2011, 11:17:58 pm »

Quote from: Graymael on October 19, 2011, 10:03:45 pm

The monkey with herpes. (Probably had a "relationship" with a Narnian.) Just sayin.

Insert some witty response about having sex with a generic member of your family that you will not take ill will to due to death and or close personal relationship.

Ragefire · « **Reply #4 on:** October 20, 2011, 01:40:41 am »

The dispatched them with pistols? What kind of pistols are officers carrying that can take down lions and tigers and bears!!!! (oh my..)

Aneo Randern · « **Reply #5 on:** October 20, 2011, 09:34:23 am »

personally "I would shoot the monkey" (218) Beah.

Orrin None-son · « **Reply #6 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:25:02 am »

The article I read said they used shotguns, and animal control had bigger guns.

Malpan · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:28:57 am »

Where was this article Orrin? Shotguns seem a really unlikely choice for shooting big game....

Orrin None-son · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:31:10 am »

And this makes me sound like an idiot newb.... I don't remember....

Unlikely yes, what they had on hand with them, yes.

Olos · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:44:39 am »

Quote from: Malpan on October 20, 2011, 10:28:57 am

Where was this article Orrin? Shotguns seem a really unlikely choice for shooting big game....

Not sure about a bear, but a 12ga with slugs would put down a lion or tiger, which looks to be the majority of what they had to kill.

Soo Ma Tai · « **Reply #10 on:** October 20, 2011, 10:52:39 am »

So will a high powered .308, The animals left are two cats, a grizzly and two monkeys that are being taken care of at a zoo.

Varadin · « **Reply #11 on:** October 20, 2011, 12:48:21 pm »

They couldnt find the one monkey, the believe one of the larger animals ate it.

Baron Fafnir · « **Reply #12 on:** October 21, 2011, 10:10:22 am »

Quote from: Malpan on October 20, 2011, 10:28:57 am

Where was this article Orrin? Shotguns seem a really unlikely choice for shooting big game....

Actually the linked article (Within the one Graymael linked) mentioned shotguns specifically.

Most departments carry slugs/buckshot in some combination and a lot of them have added 5.56 AR rifles as well.

Ketch · « **Reply #13 on:** October 22, 2011, 10:33:14 am »

A sad day a man and wife trying to save abandoned and donated animals. In to the IRS for a pile of money and no longer has the means to care for and feed them. It also seems that he had problems with his neighbors. So he turn turns them all loose and eats a bullet...
...The end of Noah's Ark.

I just had my grand son to the Zoo the week before, He loves the big cats... We were told to visit this place.

On one of the news programs they showed this pile of Lions and Tigers, and a tractor draging 4 more to the pile; they were being made ready for a mass grave that was being dug with a huge excavator.

Explain that to a 4 year old.

(He should have been interacting with his mom and dad not sitting in front of the flat screen)

I'm not into the government telling us what to do, but in this case...

What this guy did, and caused to happen to those animals makes me sick.

Ketch

Thrush Svartehjertet · « **Reply #14 on:** October 24, 2011, 04:37:02 pm »

Quote from: Malpan on October 20, 2011, 10:28:57 am

Where was this article Orrin? Shotguns seem a really unlikely choice for shooting big game....

Just real quick for those of you who do not hunt, I'm not reading very carefully btw...

In most counties in MD here we have to hunt with shotguns because the giant slugs out of them do not travel as far as rifle rounds which can go over a mile without difficulty. I use 1.25 oz slugs that leave the muzzle at 1454 fps and deliver a MASSIVE amount of energy (mass x acceleration). They are THE perfect thing at close range (mine is zeroed at 100 yds) to take down damn near ANY animal. And at very close range (< 30 yds), buckshot is perfect for taking down anything smaller than a cow.

My shotgun:

-Remington 870 Express 3" chamber
-fully rifled Mossberg barrel made for the 870
-Simmons 3x9 40mm scope
-ammo is Lightfield Commander Hybrid EXP Sabot Slugs

It groups 3" at 100 yds and makes gigantic holes in deer.

Thrush
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Ketch · « **Reply #15 on:** October 24, 2011, 10:47:03 pm »

Thrush, a 3" group at 100... that's some sweet shoot'n with that slug.

In the woods... hunting... on fall day... before the sun fades into the twilight...BOOM...

Ketch

Thrush Svartehjertet · « **Reply #16 on:** October 25, 2011, 12:49:54 am »

Yep, it's why I am willing to spend close to $3 a round. Good ammo, good equipment, good shooting... At 50 yds the holes in the paper touch, it's pretty righteous.

Thrush
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Olos · « **Reply #17 on:** October 25, 2011, 10:49:57 am »

Yeah, lightfields are pretty awesome, definitely worth the money. Devastating on the target end too. Knocked a 190 lb buck to the ground once. I'm not a good enough shot to do 3" at 100 yds, but my gun probably could.

Thrush Svartehjertet · « **Reply #18 on:** October 25, 2011, 11:57:46 am »

Quote from: Olos on October 25, 2011, 10:49:57 am

I'm not a good enough shot to do 3" at 100 yds, but my gun probably could.

That statement is why I know you actually shoot. I don't think I could do that either without a bench rest... And yeah, Lightfields are gross on the receiving end, I have yet to lose a deer I have hit with one. They define "devastating".

Thrush
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